The Influnce of the Holy Spirit Through a Believer — Keith Daniel

America’s Need for Repentance and Revival

This is about the 7th, 8th time I'm in America, maybe 9 times, I'm not 100 sure now, I went to Canada twice. But each time I come, I come with a great love for this people and this nation. And you know the only reason I come, not to preach the gospel, the only reason I bury all other things and say, oh God, I want to go, is because there's something of a desperation in my heart to see America come back to God, for the church to be revived, that's the beginning.

America can't come back to God until the people of God humble themselves in such a desperation, in such a brokenness, and begin to pray. With such desperation they throw away pride and ministers and leaders and elders will just begin to confess their sin, their sin.

My people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves. Oh, that's going to cost a proud church to do. Oh God, it's not this lost that's needing mercy, it's me. God, forgive me when we see groanings.

Then will I hear from heaven, forgive their sins and they turn from their wicked ways. My people, and then I'll heal their land. And that healing is everything you're groaning about already in America, let me tell you.

Every fear you have, you can't believe what God will undo in 3 months, what the devil's done in 20 years, 50 years, even 100. Once the church gets right with God, watch their prayers breaking down the strongholds of the devil.

But oh, church of Christ, if you don't get right with God and don't humble yourself in such a way, all God's people across this land, this land, I don't know what will be left of it soon. You'll be scared to open the door for the corruption and the depravity that will sweep across you one day.

It's up to you, church of Christ. No one else, no politician will save America, or my country, or the West. It's the church on its knees like an army. It's up to you, but when will you start? When will you start breaking, America?

Prayer for God’s Presence and the Holy Spirit

Christians of America, come, let us bow our heads in prayer, please. Let's just bow before God, our wonderful Father. Father, we just ask thee and thy mercy right now to keep us under the blood of Jesus Christ and to rebuke thou the devil away from this place, and all demons, all foreign angels, desperate demons who rebel against God and who hate man who would seek God.

Keep us under the blood, and oh, God, that surrounding this town would be chariots of fire and the angels with swords drawn to do battle against the devil and his angels. And that thou, God, would come and render heavens, and by the moving of the Holy Ghost, come to our hearts, every single one of us, and create soul first for God, for a walk that is holy here tonight.

Come visit us tonight. Come wash me in the blood of Christ, please, Father. Fill me with the Holy Spirit. Anoint my mind, my heart, my very being, my eyes. Speak to this people, God, through this very weak, base, despised, unworthy man, but because of the blood and thy grace, please speak.

Speak to the depth of every heart in a way they will never forget. No man can do that, so we look away from men, we look to thee and thee only. Come, God. Come, our God. We want God. We want God. We want God to come.

Come, our God. We're sick of men's voice. We're sick of men's abilities. We're sick of men's abilities in the pulpit. And none of our lives change. We want God. Man cannot change us. We look away from them.

Come, our God, and mercy upon all of us, that Satan does not gloat over us as we leave this place, but that he trembles because God had grace on the preacher. God had grace on every one of us because we looked only to him, knowing that no man can bless us.

No man can turn us from sin. No man can change anything in us of any worth of eternal value. But if we look to God, not even ourselves, knowing that even in ourselves there's nothing, nothing, nothing.

O God, if thou didst not come, this night would be sacred. Come, thou God, in Jesus, in Jesus the Christ's name. In Jesus the Christ's name, make this hallowed ground. Cleanse the atmosphere with the blood of Christ now.

By the Holy Ghost, bring a holy hush in this building, that this may be holy ground. Please, God, come visit us here tonight with thy presence. In Jesus the Christ's name. In Jesus the Christ's wonderful name, we ask all these things as thy people.

The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit

Amen. Tonight I'd like to speak to you about the Holy Spirit, the work of the Holy Spirit. Now there is no ending of the work of the Holy Spirit. That which we can grasp from the scriptures, we can put into categories, but there is no ending.

The Holy Spirit's work, and if you want to ever be educated, go to R. A. Torrey's book, The Person and the Work of the Holy Ghost. The personality and the person and the work of the Holy Spirit. By R. A. Torrey, he was the Almudy.

Oh brother, you're really desperate to get me shouting. The Almudy, well, he wasn't the theologian, though the theology he had was so precious because of the heart he had. And what he did have, very few men were ever used in the history of the Church to bring millions to Christ as the Almudy, who had no academic achievements, no theological training, no degrees.

He brought five million people to Christ. Many say many, many more millions. He brought nations to Christ. He brought kings to Christ, queens to Christ. He staggered the world with very little theology.

It isn't the theology that matters, it's the little you grasp of truth that comes from a burning heart, a true heart, that God anoints. But he had the great R. A. Torrey, the great Torrey to take up the work for millions, and to teach, as teaching you won't find this day.

Don't worry about the new books, please. You go to the men who moved the world to God, catched up on their lives. It'll take you a lifetime to go through the great saints that we don't still have to be sure they were true, aren't going to end in disaster.

Those who the world knew ended in holiness, but the world turned into God. Go to their books. Don't bury the past. Don't bury our heritage. Don't bury the classics. Don't burn for new books. Ninety percent of them are so shallow it's unbelievable.

Go to where there was death, where God was sweeping through land, and men were known to be men anointed by God, and the world cannot doubt it. Nations turned back to God, too, these men. Well, one great book about the Holy Spirit is R. A. Torrey's book.

You'll find he brings one thing after the other in the most amazing, illuminating way. I read it as a young Christian, and I was just lifted to another level in the school of God after that book. I, in the end, was reading on my knees.

Couldn't even sit. It was so sacred to me, what God was showing me. R. A. Torrey will tell you the work. The work of the Holy Spirit involves so many things. It is He that makes the Holy Scriptures alive, the lesser killer.

Oh, believe me, in the hands of an unsaved man, this can kill your soul if he dares to stand on the pulpit, the blind leader of the blind, and all the blind that follow, for one that lives with him, though he stands at the word of God.

Very, very seldom has God ever used the man who's unsaved in the pulpit. And it's wrong for you to be in the pulpit, brother. Sorry, friend. If you're not washed in the blood and filled with the Spirit, it's wrong.

It's wrong. You need to come to Christ. And someone dares to cry it out loud and clear these days. It isn't that I don't love you, sir. I love your soul, and I love the soul that you're leading into the ditch with you.

The Holy Spirit Gives Life and Assurance

Oh, but the Holy Spirit, you see, when the Holy Spirit, the natural man, the unsaved, cannot just recede, he cannot discern. How can he teach? When the Holy Spirit comes in a man, the spiritual man, when God is there, oh, the lesser killer, but the Spirit gives life, eternal life, if the man handles it.

Even if he's moody, without any degrees or theological training, millions come to God if a man is burning with what he gets through the Holy Spirit as his teacher. Oh, he's the one who takes the Word and makes it alive.

Don't doubt that. Don't doubt that. It's the Holy Ghost's work. The greatest orator in the church today does the work of the devil if he isn't soaked with the Holy Ghost, through a life that the Holy Ghost is in control of.

It will kill. It has a deadening effect of what God really wants. The lesser killer, but the Spirit can give us life. It's the Holy Spirit once he's convicted you and brought life and worked faith in your heart through the Holy Spirit's conviction through the Word, working faith in you.

It's the Holy Spirit that bears witness with your spirit that you're the child of God. It is work. Suddenly, one day, you cannot be sure you're saved and the minister, the preacher will say to you, if anybody in this community says it's you, your life testifies to it, but your heart doesn't.

Your heart just doesn't have the certainty and you live in fear and uncertainty and you're not sure. The next minute, once you fulfill by faith what God the Holy Ghost is telling you to do, oh, the Holy Spirit bears witness with your spirit.

You know you're saved. We know we've passed from death unto life. We know once the Holy Spirit bears witness with our spirits that we are saved. It is work. The next day, you'll go to that same preacher who is begging you not to fear and you'll say, I know.

And you know you're not being hypocritical. You know you're not doubting. God won't torment you when you truly are saved through faith, by grace, in obedience to what God says in this book to be saved.

His Holy Spirit will bear witness. You're mine. You're my child. You're saved. The Holy Spirit is the comforter. Oh, men can comfort you, but most of us, man's comfort is not enough. We'll sink into torment.

Oh, we're saved. Only when the Holy Spirit is, mainly He uses the Word. Just take the Word for comfort. You'll be amazed how this book isn't a normal book. It's the Word of God. It's living in the sovereignty of God where you're reading while you're being destroyed, as it were, suddenly where you're at.

And you will know it's no coincidence. If you open this book only to hear God's voice, you'll find a comfort. Oh, such comfort that peace will flood your heart. But keep it open. Keep a pen next to it.

And you'll be stunned. This book is not an ordinary book. This is God's Word. It's holy. Other books cannot do that. But this book is a miracle. Even you preachers never open it just to get a message.

Open it for God to speak. And what burns from this Word to your heart will burn from your lip. And what burns from your lip will burn to the hearts of those that hear you. And that's the Holy Ghost. He comforts.

Prayer, Groanings, and the Holy Spirit’s Guidance

He's the comforter. The Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit teaches us to pray. We know not how to pray as we ought. But the Holy Spirit teaches us to pray with groanings. He leads us. He takes control. Groanings that cannot be uttered.

That's not speaking about tongues, by the way. That's speaking about having the heart of God when you pray. You pray with such grief for the lost and such grief for the compromising saved that God is leading.

It's God's grief in you that you feel, that you couldn't have unless the Holy Spirit's in you. That weeping is God's weeping in you as He teaches you, as He identifies with your heart. You identify with the grief of God.

Oh, He teaches you to pray in a way you would never pray unless the Holy Spirit prayed in you, led you, taught you what it is to grieve for a dying world. The Holy Spirit's work can go on and on and on.

But tonight I would like to leave all the things that people like Torrey brought so magnificently into their books in teaching about the Holy Spirit. And I'd like to preach on something that most preachers have never and I don't think have ever heard anyone preach on.

Though they've mentioned this and brought other things, I'd like to bring aspects of the work of the Holy Spirit tonight that I don't think I've ever heard anybody preach on. And the one aspect I'd like to preach on, the one aspect I'd like to preach on tonight of the work of the Holy Spirit is this.

Conviction of Sin, Righteousness, and Judgment

He, Jesus said, when He has come, will convince the world of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment. When He has come, He will convince the world of sin. The word is convict the world of sin, of righteousness, of judgment.

D .L. Moody says, if that isn't the first thing the Holy Spirit did in your life, I doubt anything has ever happened to you of any value. If that you bypassed in religion, I doubt you're saved, Moody says, unless you were convinced by God the Holy Spirit of sin in your life, that you're a sinner, and of righteousness, that you can be made righteous by God, in spite of being a sinner, in one moment, and of judgment, if you don't judgment that's eternal.

If that work has not come upon you, sir, Moody said, I doubt that anything has ever happened in your life of any value that could save your soul, no matter how religious you are. Has He ever done that to you, sir?

How can you really cry out in a way that God can save you from judgment if you don't know you're a sinner, and grieve over it, and fear the judgment that's coming, and flee from the wrath to come? How can you cry for God to save your soul if you don't know you're lost?

And if you don't know there's judgment, why would you repent if there's no judgment? He will convince the world, He will convict the world of sin, of righteousness, of judgment. It is work to convince the world, to convict the world.

The Holy Spirit’s Work Cannot Be Manufactured

You and I cannot. I was once preaching about thirty-something years ago as a young preacher back in South Africa in our land. And some of the young priests in our society, our missionary society, they were telling me when they heard I was going to a particular town as a young fellow to preach some evangelical outreach.

Well, they said, there's a strange man in that town. He loves the Lord but always he's strange. He's desperate that people come to Christ and he sits there and does the strangest things while you're preaching.

Well, I got to the town and I didn't realize how bad it was going to be until I was standing preaching. And this man really was everything they said he was. He was terrible. He was saved. Hope you're not terrible if you're saved, but he was terrible.

He was a terror. I was preaching and suddenly I realized just how desperate this man was, you know, for people to be sure. You know, there was no truth being preached in that town ever. There's no saved minister.

There were churches but there was nothing. And he was desperate that people, when truth finally came, that people didn't miss being convicted. So he sits in the front row and while you're preaching and you suddenly mention some sin, the man said, Oh!

And he turns and says, Yes! He says, You! Go on! Well, when you're preaching you can't believe that, you know. You want to try preaching with a man like that. So you carry on, you know, try to get your liberty again and suddenly, Oh!

Yeah! Just yeah, you know. Well, he tried to woo the work of the Holy Spirit, you see. It's the Holy Spirit's work to convince, not man. Can I warn all you zealous Christians? It is the Holy Spirit work to convince the world and Christians of sin.

Not yours, it's his work, brother. You'll only do damage. That man meant to make sure nobody escaped. He was so desperate now the truth was being preached. But he destroyed that night. He destroyed any work the Holy Spirit could do.

He destroyed it. You can destroy the work of the Holy Spirit when you try and do it for him. Why is there so many people that sit in meetings that are so desperate that this person now hearing the truth they'll do something to make sure that person knows that you think they're, whether you sit there humming and going mmmm, you know.

Anything. You just try and stand in the way to make sure the Holy Spirit's work's done. You're going to do damage. And you'll be stunned what percentage of the work and the Church of Christ doesn't trust the Holy Spirit, that he's capable of doing his own work.

They have to do it for him. And they do damage. Damage! In our missionary society, years ago we had a lady. She was quite a character. A very lovely lady but my, you didn't play the fool with her. She was a missionary back in Africa.

She married one of the godliest men who was one of the leaders of the Church in our country who had a enormous influence upon the land. But this dear lady is a young missionary. She was telling me how in our society someone became convinced and pretty desperate about her, that there was something in her life that shouldn't be in a missionary's life.

Something that really had to be dealt with. And this person became desperate as all the Christians. And so she came to this young missionary lady. Mrs. Fenter was her name. And she says to this lady, there's someone in the AEB, that's the missionary society I belong to, someone in the AEB who's doing something, the terrible things as he named it.

And she said, and she shouldn't be doing that. A missionary shouldn't be doing that. Shouldn't do that, shouldn't be. And so Mrs. Fenter looked at this lady and realised, you know, this is strange. She said, oh, oh.

The lady said, yeah. And it's in the AEB, she's in the AEB. Mrs. Fenter said, oh. She said, yeah. And she shouldn't be doing it, it's wrong. Oh, Mrs. Fenter said, oh. And the lady got desperate, you know, she said, and it's you.

You're the one. So Mrs. Fenter, of course, she was a young missionary, she had a long way to go. She looked at this lady and said, yes. Now, I don't know what near means in the Christian vocabulary. It isn't great victory.

But I think if you want to put it into words, it means shame on you. That you, after the years you've walked as God, couldn't leave me for the Holy Ghost to tell me that. And that you had to come and say it in this way.

That you didn't wait for the Holy Spirit to do this and you jumped the gun. And how many Christians, you forget how long it took you to be what you are. Have you no patience with those as God had patience with you?

And you'll end up getting exasperated and do the work of the Holy Ghost. But you do damage. You do damage. I know Nathan came to David and he confronted him about a sin and that was from God. But let me tell every one of you sitting here tonight who name the name of Christ unless you know it's God leading you.

Don't. You do damage. Leave the work of the Holy Spirit to Him to the right time. For you cause a soul to so stumble over you that they'll probably stagger over something they wouldn't have staggered over because they're so offended at you interfering.

There's so much you've got to leave to God the Holy Spirit. So much. And be careful before you say it's God leading you. You could do more damage than anything else. Another danger. Look, I'll go on with the words of the Holy Spirit in a prayer meeting.

Have you ever seen that? Oh my, they're not praying to God for others, they're praying at others. Oh, here's my opportunity people in need. Let me have a say. And so they don't pray to God, they pray to people.

They're preaching on their knees. Now that does damage. Who can't trust the Holy Spirit even in their prayers praying for the Holy Spirit. They're actually not trusting God. They're doing the work, making sure that the person hears.

Now that's a grief to God and that's sin. Probably a greater sin in God's eyes than the person that's grieving you. That's a sense of hypocrisy of what you're doing and a lack of trust. Oh, be careful in prayer meetings.

Be careful. That wasn't a prayer meeting when I was a young Christian, a young preacher. Mostly preachers all filled with big conventions, massive conventions. And there was one dear man, he was a godly man.

For some reason he just lost it that night. And there he was praying and he started praying the strangest thing. He says there's sin and he started out to slung in our language that means there's a snake in the grass.

That's a horrible thing to say. What he was really starting to groan about is there's sin in the camp, you know, in the Old Testament. That's why things are going wrong in the missionary society. That's why things are being held back and there's difficulties.

The blessing of God isn't what it should be. There's someone full of sin here that has to be dealt with God. Now he had someone in mind and here he was groaning and grieving but oh, he destroyed the whole convention.

He just went on and on praying about God showing this and dealing with it and getting it out of the mission, getting it, dealing with it until God can go and say and bless us. Well, he was praying with someone in mind and groaning and oh, he went on and on, you know, and no one could pray after that.

Everyone was devastated that this man saw someone full of sin and wickedness as the priest. Well, we all walked out with a cloud over us and everybody's eyes a bit grief-stricken and I can't tell you, I think it was ten people within about five minutes came to me.

I thought to myself, does he think that's in my life? Does he, does he think I'm full of sin? I, I was a bit grieving and suddenly one after the other came and said, you know, I think he thinks it's me, one person.

Everybody was under conviction. I think the only person that wasn't convicted was the one he meant it for. I actually would be surprised if the person he meant it for actually felt anything. We all were just smitten, this is terrible, I mean, you just don't do that.

I was in a meeting where a missionary prayed, there's someone in the meeting on their knees that's doing this terrible thing. Lord, I must show, she didn't name it, this is a terrible thing. Lord, I must show, I must show, it's a stumbling block at causing others to stumble.

I must deal with this God and oh, she went on, you know. Again, everybody's just devastated, no one could pray. Well, who does she think is full of sin yet? You know, I've been saved 32 years, just on 33 years now and I have seldom been in a prayer meeting over all these years when suddenly someone didn't start praying at others and not to God.

It's a terrible danger, you know. And let me tell you, it's wrong. It is wrong, it is wrong, brother, it is wrong, sister. It is such a grief to God that if you could just see the grief you're causing God, you'd get in your face and weep for mercy.

I believe it's so wrong because it's a stench of hypocrisy that just sweeps up into heaven that while you're supposed to be on your knees sincerely asking God for something, all you're doing is God isn't in mind.

You're just wanting your convictions to be smiting anyone there that's grieving you. And that sin is sin, don't doubt it. I would be surprised if it isn't greater sin and grief to God than the people you're praying for.

I would be stunned if it isn't grieving God more than the hypocrisy of praying at others. Brothers, you can pray to God for others' sins, but not in front of them, not that they know you singled them out.

You're not praying to God, you're praying to them. You can pray to God for others, but don't you dare pray at others. It's got to stop. It's God, the Holy Spirit's work, but not on our knees. Don't make prayer meetings taking the work that you truly trust in.

You will speak to Him about individuals. You won't get everybody groppling in pain as you're individually singling people out. Be careful now. Be careful of the work of the Holy Spirit. My brother was saved through a man who was probably the holiest man of God I ever knew in my life.

I've met many of your godliest men in this land, and privileged to pray alongside of them, sometimes for a minute, sometimes for an hour. God somehow helped me to get as nothing as I am to suddenly be praying with some of the household names of the Christian world, and I was grateful to be with him, but the holiest man of God I ever met in my life.

He was the only man that I looked at who shone. He shone so much that I wept. I stood weeping when I stood in this man's presence. I trembled, beholding how holy God could make a man. He was so holy, and don't think this is my opinion only as I've gone across to other countries, and people have heard me mention their name.

They've come to me everywhere and said, he led me to Christ. And what you say is true. There's never, I've never seen anyone that can compare with the Christ-likeness and the holiness of that man. He was the holiest man of God I ever knew in my life.

And as I wept, so many have told me they stood weeping, weeping, sinners weeping, just looking at this man, let alone listening to him preach. Oh, he was a man of God, Will Macfarlane. He came to our country.

He preached. My brother, by a miracle of God, was sitting in the meeting. He had no seeking after God. He was just there by some amazing event, series of events that he sat under the holiest man of God, one of the holiest that ever lived.

And oh, the anointing on a life if it's holy, brother. You cannot believe the power of God and the authority of God and the conviction just through the life. My brother was so staggered. He was drunk.

He said he couldn't stand up. He was so stunned. He fell. He was so smitten for the first time. He had never heard God's voice in his life. That night he just ran powerful God and gave his life to God.

Oh, he gave his life to God through this godly man's ministry. This man knelt beside him and led him personally to Christ. He led him personally to Christ. But he went away. He left the country. And suddenly, a few months after having led my brother Dudley to Christ, this man suddenly was flying back through South Africa to get to what we call Rhodesia, another nation inland in Africa.

And as he was in South Africa, my brother said, if Wilmette Farland is here, I've got to see him. I want to see him. And so they said, well, he's only one night in South Africa, in Johannesburg. He's flying off tomorrow.

So if you want to see him, it's just one night. So Dudley said, oh, we can't come. We can't come tonight because there's a dance. A dance. We arranged this dance. It was an annual event for so many older fellows growing up.

It was something you booked way ahead, months and months before he was saved. The secret was all organized. The whole thing, it was something you did annually. You didn't miss this. Something everybody got together.

And so he said, well, if we can't get out of it, we've got to go to the dance. So they said, well, this godly woman where he was staying said, well, you've only got tonight. So my brother said, well, on the way to the dance can't we see him?

We'll come a bit early. Now, if you know how obnoxious that is, that this godly man, I mean, if you saw Will McFarlane's face, let alone heard his ministry, and knew somebody was coming on the way to the dance to say to him, we've come to see you.

You led us to Christ. I mean, it's obnoxious. It's horrific to think someone could do that to Will McFarlane and say, I'm going to a dance. If you just knew the shock of it, I mean, it's unbelievable.

But there he now comes with his fiancée Anne. On the road to the dance they wanted desperately to see this man that led them to Christ. So they arrived at the home and Will McFarlane looked at them and they said, we'll be going to a dance but you can't sit long but we just wanted to speak to you.

So he looked at them and he asked them about their walk with God since they've been saved, the fruit. Do you have a quiet time? Did you have one this morning? Do you want to know how real a person is this, hit that?

You're as real as your quiet time. You're not as real as how you were saved ten years ago, brother. You're as real today as you were this morning. That's how real you are as a Christian. This morning, did you meet with God?

Did you soak yourself with your soul in the Bible as your greatest love in life that nothing kept you from? It's your survival. It's your survival. Did you soak yourself in prayer? Did you meet with God?

Oh, well, he asked about the quiet time. How are you reading? How are the chapters? How many chapters? How's the Bible? He didn't ask other questions. In the end, he said, we've got to go. Sorry, Mr. Mac, so will you pray for us?

So Mr. Mac McFarlane prayed for them and he prayed for them and God blessing upon them and thanked God for them and off they went to the dance. Well, they got in the car and Dudley says they were driving and as they drove, they drove slower and slower.

In the end, they were crawling along the road and they weren't speaking to each other and didn't look at him and say, why are you driving so slowly? But there's this deathly silence in the car and there they, finally crawling in the car in deathly silence they got to the dance.

Got out the dance, got out the car, got up to meet all their friends around the table. Well, their friends were all there drinking already and of course they said, come, let's give you some alcohol. Drink, you know, let's pour you some drink.

Dudley said, no, we don't drink anymore. Anne or me, we won't have any drink, thank you. So this friend who kind of grew up through schooling and years even with Dudley, he says, what? You don't drink anymore.

What are you talking about? Are you mad? Come, we don't drink anymore. Oh, you don't drink anymore, OK. So they sit down. So then, you know, all the while music is starting and the dancing all carrying on and so they started talking and blaspheming came in, you know, and dirty jokes, straight away a dirty joke had to be told.

Let's break the ice with a dirty joke. So Dudley said, why do you have to tell such a thing? Just stop, I can see where you're heading. Please, we don't want to hear the end of that. And why do you always have to say Jesus' name with all these dirty words of yours, as if it's a dirty word?

So the fellows all looked at him and everybody that came with him said, what's happened to you? What's wrong with you? Since when have you been worried about dirty jokes and Jesus' name? So the fellow got up and took Anne and he said, Anne, let me get you away from him, he's gone mad.

Come, you come and dance with me. This fellow reeking with zinc now, Dudley's friend from the earth. So Dudley got up and said, no, I know you, you don't touch Anne. You're not taking her to dance, don't you touch Anne.

So this fellow lost it, you know, he shouted and he said, what's wrong with you, man? He was angry, what's wrong with you? And Dudley said, I've become a Christian, I've given my life to Jesus. And this fellow looked for a while and everybody sat at the table with eyes like this, mouths open, all his friends through the air.

And this fellow said to Dudley, Dudley, if you've given your life to God, like you say, what are you doing here? What are you doing here, Dudley, if you've given your life to God? And Dudley said, I don't know, but I'm going, I'm going and I'm not staying.

So he grabbed Anne and they ran out down to the car, you know, and what did they do? They got in the car, they weren't driving slowly, they drove fast, where did they go? Straight back to Mr. Will Macfarlane.

They go back and there he was waiting and they called him when Dudley came to the door and he said, ah, Dudley, you're back, we knew you were coming back. Didn't know it'd be this fast. Come in. So they sat there and Dudley said, Mr. Macfarlane, if you knew it was wrong, why didn't you tell us?

Why didn't you warn us? Why didn't you just tell us? We shouldn't go, that nobody who carries the name of Christ could feel comfortable there, nobody that's saved could sit there and feel comfortable.

We've never heard anybody say it's wrong, we never knew. Why didn't you just tell us? So he said, oh Dudley, I didn't tell you because I wanted God to tell you and I knew he would because you're saved.

I knew he would. I didn't doubt God would tell you when you went back there, boy, but you see, Dudley, if I told you, you'd stop because of me. You'd be scared I'd find out, I might know and I'm not going to be around most of your life, Dudley, but if God told you and I knew he would and he's always going to be with you, watching every step you take and he's in you to carry you, this is the way if you're suddenly tempted to go anywhere else, don't go that way.